It states (Mishlei 26:14) “The door turns on its hinges, and a lazy person on his bed.” Reb Shimshon Pinkus zt’l asks about the connection between the hinges and a lazy person. Let’s say there’s a yeshiva where one thousand bachurim study....
Can I use my leftover challah to make dairy French toast? So, there’s really two questions about the challah. Let’s talk about how it was baked. If it was baked in a fleishig oven,...
When Yaakob’s sons returned to Egypt and informed him that his beloved son, Yosef, was still alive, he at first didn’t believe them (45:26). But Yaakob then saw the wagons that Yosef had sent with his brothers to...
“Vayigash, and he approached”. The parsha opens with Yehuda pleading to Yosef on behalf of his youngest brother, Binyamin. Picture it. Yosef, Viceroy to the Pharaoh, sitting on a regal throne. His brothers standing before him....
Transformation of a Brother Yosef could not contain his tears, nor can we, when we read each year the story of how after a feud and separation that endured for twenty-two years, the Prime Minister of Egypt, Yosef, reveals...
Patrilineal descent and intermarriage are the problem, not the solution. The recent Jewish People Policy Institute study found that outside of Orthodoxy, fewer Jews are getting married, those marrying are marrying later and having fewer children and intermarriage rates are...
I. Home For Chanukah Chanukah occupies an unusual place in halachah. Most mitzvos fall on the individual. Chanukah’s primary mitzvah devolves on the location, not the person. The Gemara (Shabbos 21b) does not describe the obligation as lighting a candle...
Chanukkah is one of two holidays that the Rabbis instituted to celebrate great miracles that happened to our nation, the other, of course, being Purim. Several differences exist between the way we observe Chanukkah and the way we observe...
And my silver goblet, you shall place in the knapsack of the youngest...
With great responsibility comes great power! The drama continues. A disguised Yosef is keeping Shimon locked up and threatening to deny any more food to Yaakov’s family until the youngest is brought down to Egypt. Desperate and...